DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.

Holiday moss is turning out to be more than a rustic backdrop for candles and nativity scenes. By trapping fragments of genetic material from animals that pass by or drift overhead, those soft green ...

New species of aquatic mite in Portuguese rivers, Torrenticola galaica, reveals the existence of hidden predators.

A look at the case of Matthew Milat, exploring the events, investigation, and the factors that brought attention to his story ...

Gabe Veltri, ‘24, and Olivia Roberts, ‘24, undergraduate research study makes it into scientific journal, Urban Ecosystems.

DNA is known to keep its form for centuries, and the researchers found that their tape could store data for more than 345 years at room temperature, or about 20,000 years at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 ...

The Shapiro Administration announced nearly $530,000 in funding for 15 projects across the Commonwealth dedicated to conserving Pennsylvania’s native biodiversity, and Penn State is receiving the ...

Abstract: DNA barcode is a short sequence taken from organism's DNA which can be used as marker for species identification purpose. The barcoding technique is quite similar to the way a barcode ...

The Netherlands has launched an ambitious national program to map and barcode every known plant, animal, and fungal species in the country, aiming to create one of the most comprehensive DNA libraries ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for drug discovery, using mass spectrometry instead of DNA tags. 'We wanted to make ...

Nucleic acid-based therapeutics, including antisense oligonucleotides (ASO), small interfering RNA (siRNA), messenger RNA (mRNA), immunomodulatory DNA/RNA, and gene-editing guide RNA (gRNA), hold ...

A recent study in West Bengal used DNA barcoding and traditional methods of species identification to document fish diversity in the Purba Midnapore district. Ambiguities in species identities when ...